Data you can walk around
A school wants to show where its energy goes. One team draws a poster. Another builds a 3D model of the building. A third lets visitors wear a headset and walk through it.
These are three more ways to show data. Each costs more and suits a different job.
Key words
| Word | What it means | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Image | A picture such as a photo, a drawing or a map. | A map of the school with hot rooms marked |
| Infographic | A poster that mixes short text, icons and numbers to tell one story. | Where our energy goes |
| Extended reality | A name for virtual, augmented and mixed reality together. It is also called XR. | A headset tour of a data model |
| Virtual reality | A computer-made world you see all around you through a headset. | Walking through a 3D chart |
| Augmented reality | Digital information laid over your view of the real world. | Room energy shown on a phone camera |
| 3D model | A shape in three dimensions that can be turned and viewed from any side. | A model of a building |
| 3D printing | Making a real object layer by layer from a 3D model. | A printed raised chart |
| Accessibility | Making a message usable by everyone, including people with a disability. | Strong contrast and a touch version |
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By the end of this lesson
Note
I can describe images, infographics, XR and 3D models and printing, and judge when each suits a brief.
Starter: what you already know
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Starter: what you already know
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Images and infographics
An image can be a map, a photo or a drawing. A map shows where. A photo shows what something looks like.
An infographic tells one story with a few numbers, icons and short words. Give it one message, a clear order and the source of the data. Keep text short and contrast strong.
Extended reality
Extended reality, or XR, covers three kinds. Virtual reality puts you inside a made world. Augmented reality adds data on top of the real world, for example through a phone camera.
Mixed reality goes further: virtual objects sit in the real room and react to it. XR suits training and exploring complex data, but it costs more and not everyone can use it.
Check: the three XR kinds
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Check: the three XR kinds
3 questionsYour answers are marked here and are not kept. A college account keeps every student’s marks.